BOSTON – Acrobatic troupe Les 7 Doigts De La Main (The Seven Fingers) has traveled around the world from their home in Montreal, mixing magical combinations into their newest show, “Cuisine & Confessions,” that has now deftly tumbled onto the stage at the Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theatre.

You would be wise to get to the theater at least half an hour before this high-flying culinary commentary begins, in order to hear the troupe’s nine acrobats dish out comical comments about themselves and their relationships to food, and cunningly invite you onto the stage. The tightly choreographed acrobatics come a little later, once the lights have dimmed, and the show is underway.

Finnish acrobat Nella Niva, who tells us she never cooked before she lived on her own, at age 15, tosses gummy bears to the audience. A male performer, standing on the central bar, drops a knife, point first, into a piece of wood below. A fearless audience member holds the small wood piece and lets them tie a piece of cloth over his eyes, while the knife thrower, yards away, pretends to practice throwing. Finally, a surprise cuts the tension, and the relieved audience laughs.

In the final pre-show act, a male performer tosses an egg half-way across the audience to a fellow acrobat, who tosses it back, and the first man intentionally breaks it open with one hand. These beginning acts get the audience loosened up, and help the acrobats know whom to invite on the stage later on.

After the international troupe – performers include Finland’s Niva, Melvin Diggs (U.S.), Mishannock Ferrero (U.S./Sweden), Sidney Iking Bateman (U.S.), Anna Kichtchenka (Russia), Camille Legris (Canada), Emile Pineault (Canada), Matias Plaul (Argentina) and Pablo Pramparo (Argentina) – have introduced themselves, the action builds. They effortlessly tumble, jump, and somersault in nonstop action. A male performer turns a woman upside down, and a male performer throws another up into the air, and catches him on the way down. An audience member, Alexandra, is invited up onto the stage, and they prepare an omelet for her.

And before you know it, two performers have placed very delicate square frames of different sizes on top of each other, and do what no human being can do. The men jump (practically standing straight up) and dive (head first, sometimes followed immediately by returning feet first) through the frames. The two of them occasionally dive in opposite directions at the same time. They dive off the bottom of one another’s feet, and they rearrange the frames to a much higher level. When one performer knocks a frame off, he apologizes, saying he just barely hit it. They amaze us.

The action is constant and non-stop. A female performer innocently plays with a long strand of cloth, then is suddenly lifted. She swings high above the stage in the cloth, holding it around one leg, around just her back, and, then amazingly, around only her head. Finally, she twirls all the way down the cloth, nearly to the floor. She looks completely innocent, like she’s far from capable of doing this. But she’s totally capable, and her aerial act is amazing, deft, and beautiful. The fact that the acrobats – six men and three women – clearly come from different parts of the world, and tell us different experiences of growing up and adulthood, is part of the show’s uniqueness.

Little things happen. A male performer sitting on a sofa suddenly throws himself over the back of it, and then returns. And a female performer keeps her head and most of her torso still, while traveling around it with her feet stomping on the ground.

And then there is the pole. When a performer walks up it, turns upside down, and descends at great speed to inches from the floor, it takes our breath away. Two male performers climb the pole together; and we see a man descend as a woman quickly pulls her arms away from the pole, and grasps it again after he passes her by.

The audience is told to set the timer on our mobile phones for 36 minutes, because banana bread is being baked for everyone. And in the meantime, a very moving story is shared about a man’s father, a “desaparecido,” who is killed by a Latin American government.

“Alexandra, your bread is almost ready,” one of male performers says. And the timers ring.

By the end of the show, we have been wrapped up in the possible and impossible, and we’re not sure which is which.

"Cuisine & Confessions”

Co-Presented by ArtsEmerson and Jonathan Reinis Productions; created and staged by Shana Carroll and Sébastien Soldevila